Best RX 7900 XTX Gaming PC Build Guide (w/ Ryzen 7 7800X3D) $2000

welcome back to another full PC build guide I'm really stoked for this one because we're finally going to be tackling the best bang for your buck at the $2,000 price point this build is going to give you so much performance for 2,000 bucks yeah this is the Radeon RX 7900 XTX and for the money this card is super powerful it's going to pop out tons of frames at 1440p this card is a beast let me go ahead and share with you how we break down these build guides first we're going to go over all the parts we picked their prices and why we picked them second we're going to jump into the build guide I don't care if you've never built a gaming PC before by the end of this video you will have the confidence to build your first rig I'm going to guide you guys through the whole process from the very beginning to the finish and then third at the end of the video we're going to put our system to the test against all current popular titles Esports and aaa's stay tuned till the end of the video so you can see exactly how this PC performs it's going to be a little benchmarking montage and we're going to beair our card with my personal favorite CPU the ryzen 77800 x3d this is the ultimate gaming CPU it performs amazing in games and what I'm talking about is when we're using our RX 7900 XTX we want to make sure that we're getting all the power out of it which whatever game we're playing and that's why I love AMD 3D CPU so much because they help you achieve that 100% utilization with your graphics card it's always good to see because that is not the norm when you get a graphics card a lot of the time you're not going to be at 99% utilization on all your games but this as you guys will see at the end of the video it's a killer combo what's going to be cooling our CPU we're going to be using the ak500 by Deep cool this is a very solid heat sink for the money and they also sell an even beefier version that I'll go ahead and Link down below that has two fans on it and the heat sink's even bigger but this is going to keep our CPU cool for the motherboard we're going to be using gigabytes orus line of motherboards and this is rocking the b650 chipset this is an ATX motherboard of course beautiful as far as the Aesthetics of it tons of USB ports built in Wi-Fi of course and Bluetooth we want to get the Wi-Fi antenna if you're going to be using Wi-Fi and this little jfp1 accessory so far our storage plenty of storage for this build 2 terb m.2 SSD the WD black line is faster than the blue line for the ram we're using a different type of ram kit we went with G skill this time this is AMD Expo ready Ram super Speedy at 632 GB of ddr5 this is the flare X5 now we need to power everything right gold rated power supply for this build by Cooler Master this is their mwe 50 V2 this is a fully modular power supply this is going to be plenty of juice for our build here today with that gold rated efficiency when a power supply says that it's fully modular it means that none of the cables are connected to it so we're only going to connect the cables that we need into it which means better Cable Management now for our case we're going with a case by antec this is the df700 flux I'm going to go ahead and take both of the panels off so why we chose this case is because it offers so much it comes included with five pre-installed fans and they're RGB they're going to light up fully customizable we have three in the front we have one down here which is going to give air straight to our graphics card so it's going to keep our GPU extra cool and then one exhaust fan and if we take a look at the back of the case here's the fan controller and all five fans are already wired to the fan controller so easy installation as most of the work is already done for us right here we have the screws and accessories in the hard drive cage all right so that concludes all our required Parts total price boom right here now we're going to jump into the optional parts list this is simply for Aesthetics number one our Funko Pop of course we chose Godzilla going to match our build he's black he's got that splash of blue to match our other extras this is our brand crater custom power supply extension cabl so in the front of our build this is going to be on display instead of the ugly stock power supply cables and it's going to look way better inside of our system next we have our crater RGB LED strip kit comes with two strips strong magnetic attachments and the cables to connect the two are motherboard with these are going to do is provide a big splash of light inside our build so we can admire our components even more change it to any color we want with lighting effects all right guys we're going to jump into the build now all parts used for this build are linked in the video description so if we take a close look at our CPU we're going to find a Golden Arrow on the top left side of it now here we have our CPU socket and we also have an arrow on the top left side there it is so now what we're going to do is push this lever to the side pull it all the way up lift this up so now we line up the arrow of our CPU with the Arrow on the CPU socket and Let It Drop right into place and there we go now we're ready to secure it so push this back down and return the lever to its original position by pushing it all the way down and tucking it in right there and then this plate will come off and there we go our CPU is installed now we need to cool it so what we're going to need to install our heat sink is the heat sink our AMD mounting kit which is the one that looks like this comes with an Intel one will not look like this at all so just get this one out of the bag the four thumb screws thermal paste and it comes with a screwdriver I'm not going to use this though I'm going to use my screwdriver that is it first thing we're going to do is remove all four of these screws and we're removing these things over right here as well now inside of our AMD bag we're going to secure these screws with the black part on the bottom so just like this make sure you tighten it all the way we're going to do the same for the remaining three and the last one okay nice next we're going to be placing both of these in this position so we're going to get one in here first and now we need to secure it with the thumb screws one and the other I'm going to finish securing it with a screwdriver just keep turning till it stops there we go all right now let's go over how the heat sink mounts on first we want to remove the fan of the heat sink so we're going to push up right here that's going to release it same thing on the other side now our fan comes off and look what we have here as well as on the other side we need to now remove this and we're going to put our screwdriver through here and that's going to allow us to reach this screw so now in this position with this on the left side we are simply going to screw in both of these screws into the two attachment points but first we need to apply thermal paste so let's apply a p sized amount of thermal paste in the middle of our CPU there we go just a bit of thermal paste in the middle of the CPU now you want to remove the protective film on the heat sink and we're going to place our heat sink down but remember this point right here needs to be on the left side so now I'm going to lay down our heat sink with these two points lined up and I just like to look down here and line it up correctly so it's lined up and I have my screwdriver and I'm just going to secure one of the screws first not all the way I just want it to attach that one screwed in a bit and now for the other one put our screwdriver through here I got the second one to attach you don't want to screw one side in all the way in the beginning because then the other side's going to lift up too high and it's going to be hard to secure the second now that I've got it both sides secured I'm going to screw this side in a bit more now now the other one again just to keep even pressure now I'm going to finish securing this one I'm just going to keep turning till it stops there you go it stopped you can't overtighten it and now the final side keep turning till it stops and there we go our heat sink is fully secure and now you can actually lift up the motherboard from it so let's go ahead and reattach the fan so let's go ahead and have the cable down here on the bottom and we're going to line it up we're going to secure it by then clipping this back in there and same thing for the other side that's in and now we have the cable of the fan which we need to hook up to right above our Ram slots right here gray fan header and that is where we are hooking this up boom and there you go the fan of the heat sink is now connected to the motherboard last step is to clip cover back on done there we go now it's time to install our Ram get out our Speedy kit boom beautiful Ram so what we want to do is pull back the levers of the second ram Ram slot and the fourth and now we're going to line up the indent of our Ram stick with the part on the ram slot that's not indented so our Ram only goes in one way so once we have it in we're then going to push down with both thumbs equal force and both of the clips are going to clip back up and now same thing for our second stick and to get it into the slot push down with both thumbs equal force and you're going to hear that click and the levers go all the way up and there we go our beautiful g-scale Ram is installed next we're going to move down here this is where we're going to install our m.2 SSD super Speedy 2 TB WD black m.2 SSD here he is so now guys we're going to be using a zero screwdriver to remove this m.2 SSD heat sink get it out of the we and now we're going to lift this up like this with our nail there we go we have now exposed this we're going to put our m.2 SSD into this slot like this it only goes in one way now we're going to lay it on the standoff just like that that and push this thing back down to secure done just like that when we reapply the heat sink we want to remove the protective film on the back and now rescure the heat sink done m.2 installed we're moving fast here guys all right guys now it's time to install our motherboard inside of our case so when installing a motherboard inside of your case you want to make sure that all the points of the motherboard line up correctly with the motherboard standoffs inside the case so for this case we don't need to remove or add any motherboard standoffs they're already in the appropriate position for our ATX form factor motherboard so we're ready to start securing it so lay our case down so we're going to get our motherboard in here and I'm going to line up the io Shield right here in the back of the case I'm going to lift the cable of this fan up so it doesn't get trapped underneath our motherboard putting it in to the io shield and there we go I've lined up the io shield and all the parts of the motherboard back here and now I'm going to line up the middle motherboard standoff with the middle point of our motherboard and there we go oh guys and we need screws the screws are located in the hard drive cage of the case be sure to get this out first but there it is all right we're going to be using this screw right here guys looks like this all right I'm going to do the middle first and now we're going to screw in all nine points and at the end we'll highlight all the nine points we [Music] secured all right guys so we secured three points in the middle getting rid of this sticker get that sticker out of there on the top three more and on the bottom another three here here and here all right guys now we're ready to install our power supply let's connect the cables to it so here we have all the cables that came with it first cable we're going to plug in is our big 24 pin power cable looks like this so the end we're going to plug in this end to the power supply first one down here and the other part on Top next we're going to plug in our SATA power cable looks like this this end of the cable is going to connect right here next we have our CPU cable we're going to plug in the end that's labeled PSU to the power supply we're just going to plug it in right here here we have a second CPU cable we're going to do the same thing plug in the side that's labeled PSU and last we have our two PCI Express cables this is going to power our graphics card so again plug in the end that says PSU to the power supply and another one one and there we go guys it should look like that so up here we have our two CPU power cables and the graphics card power cables right here here we have our big 24 pin power cable and then a sated power cable over here now this next step is optional I'm going to go ahead and hook up our custom sleep power supply extensions now we're only going to be hooking up three from the kit the big 24 pin power cable and then two PCI Express cables to power our graphics card so for the first one the big 24 pin power cable is going to hook up to the extension now instead of directly to the the motherboard and now this will plug into the motherboard and be on display now here we have our two PCI Express cables as you can see this one is split 6 + 2 for a total of 8 pins when we're looking at our extension kit you want to find the cable that is also split 6 + 2 and the other end of that is now going to connect to the PCI Express cable and same thing for the other cable and done now let's go to the back of the case we're going to slip our power supply down here make sure that the fan of the power power supply is facing down put it in and then we line it up with the four points and secure it with the screws that it came with the case also comes with these screws now let's lay the case down and we're going to unscrew two screws right here so we did that so then we can remove the hard drive cage so we can have more space for cable management we're not going to be using hard drives in this build now it's time to start hooking up cables I know we have a spaghetti mess here but don't worry we're going to take it one cable at a time we break down all our cables into three groups first group of cables is all our power supply cables which power things second group of cables is all the case cables which connect the power button the ports and everything else up here to the motherboard and the third and final group of cables is all our fans and our lighting first power cable is our big 24 pin we want this to clip back here so we want to line it up straight and push it all the way in there we go it clipped and that's looking good next we're going to go to the top left of our motherboard and right here is where we're going to hook up our CPU power cables so again we want this part to clip up here so I'm going to line it up straight it's lined up pushing all right that one's in and has clipped in as you can see the other one now is only a four pin for this CPU power cable we want to split it in half like that these spread apart we're only going to be plugging in one so we line it up and push it in and there is the finished product and it should look like that guys and that's it with our power cables for now we're going to plug in the graphics card power cables later now we're moving on to our second group of cables our case cables I'm going to unscrew this fan just three of its four screws so I can push it to the side because it is in the way right now we're working to plug in cables I want you guys to get a better look so yeah just three and then that'll go to the side for now I want to move the cable through here but there is not enough clearance we're going to unscrew the power supply and just push it forward and then the cables will go through once we're done hooking up all the case cables then we rescure the power supply and push forward now we're good so first we're plugging in our HD audio cables labeled plug it in with the HD audio text facing down and it plugs in far left of our motherboard right here goes right in in there next we're going to be plugging in our small little jfp1 cables we're going to be using this tool that came with the motherboard so as you can see it's labeled for us so first we're going to hook up power LED so we got to line up the plus the negative and we plug it in where it says power LED it's nice and secure now right here we have the power button for that we're going to hook a power switch now let's turn this around we have HD that's where you plug in HDD LED positives on the right get it in there all right cool so this this is ready to go now and it plugs in right here only one way line up straight and push right in and it should look like that our cable should be on the left side last case cable is our USB 3 cable that goes right here as you can see it has a hump the hump goes through this little opening right here we have to line it up straight once we have it in then we push in make sure you line it up straight guys because you don't want to bend pins there we go that looks good now I am going to rescure this fan just tucking in my jfp1 cables right here making sure I don't disconnect them and don't forget to rescure your power supply all right guys third group of cables our fans and our lighting almost done so on the back of our case is where we have our fan controller all the fans and all the lighting of the fans are connected to the fan controller so once we connect the fan controller to the motherboard it automatically connect all the lighting and the fans to the motherboard undo this right here okay we have three cables here first things first let's give the fan controller power through SATA so we're going going to get the SATA power cable from our power supply and connect it to the fan controller okay our fan controller now has power now we're going to connect fan cable of the fan controller so on the top right of our motherboard right here is where we're going to hook up the fans it's labeled right here system fan one when the motherboard says system fan that's where you hook up fans to it so there you go right next to it is where we're going to hook up the last cable so this is a three pin RGB plug only plugs in one way we're going to plug it into here three pin RGB header and there we go that's it this one does not plug into anything and that's it guys that was fast now let's go ahead and open up this bad boy here we go with 24 whole gigs of V Ram first unboxing boom wa I was not expecting that it already comes with it's a GPU support so this is a surprise and here's the card big boy right here three fans For the First Time Boom look at that that looks sick black colorway it's going to take two eight pins for the juice we have three transparent fans right here because all this lights up nice back plate hell hound that looks dope got for the video ports one HDMI three display ports this is a three slot card so we need to make room for this guy we're going to first get this thing unscrewed and we're going to move it forward and now we're going to be removing the second third and fourth brackets that out of there okay we're done we want to put our graphics card into this PCI slot so make sure this is back it already is and now we're going to line up our card with our PCI slot so I line it up there we go once we got it into place we're just going to push until our clip comes back up there it is it's in all the way that clip came back up it looks beautiful going to go ahead and secure with the three screws that we just unscrew to remove the brackets and the last screw up here all right cool can tighten these up again now all right card secure and now we need to give it a it's juice two eight pin power cables wire them through down here there's one and two okay I'm going to throw the cable Combs on here real quick so let's plug in first one sure it clips and our second boom and make sure that these cables are not too low because we don't want them to hit the fan down here okay sick guys we're done if you're following along congrats I'm going to install the rgbl strip kit real quick put in the Funko Pop cable manage the back put the panels back on and then we're going to do our first boot up time lapse quick side note guys we have these little metal Ties on the cables of our case I'm talking about these little metal ties we want to remove all of these because we don't want them to touch our motherboard and short something get these out of [Music] there all right gentlemen and Ladies we are now done let's plug in the power we're going to do that first peel right now boom let's get get the lights off first boot up fans are spinning and everything's on it's looking good let's get a closeup this Funko Pop is crazy man that one's something else remember all the lights on the graphics card are strips and the fans are fully customizable we can change it to any color we want any lighting effect we really can't see inside of this really well though there's a lot of glare going on I'm going to take the panel off and the fans of the graphics card do light up which is awesome the fans aren't spinning right now because the graphics card is cool once you start gaming and it starts heating up then the fan spin this came out sick okay guys can't wait to put this guy to the test remember now we need to install an operating system Windows 11 I made a video tutorial on how to install Windows 11 for free from a USB flash drive that video is linked in the video description then after that we need to install the drivers to make sure everything's running good remember all parts used for this build are linked in the video description all right guys let's frag it up is thatting for Call of Duty war zone 2 we have 440p res here are the quality settings and our view 120 to the Max and those are those settings right there let's do it we have to activate our inner Eagle Powers this oh I got a double kill I get to the top oh it's a one one now guys I don't have a damn gas mask yeah and may I add the performance was amazing this is my dream PC for war zone 2 or Call of Duty Mod Warfare 3 multiplayer 240 FPS at 1440p amazing playing experience and we brought home the dub next game settings for the finals 1440p res fov to the 100 here the rest of the settings let's do [Music] it go go you got it you got it you got it oh good job boys good job all right we won that match FPS is crazy next game settings for fortnite 440p rest performance mode here's a rest of the settings let's do it again with the 100% GPU utilization man best GPU CPU combo for [Music] $2,000 what the heck is this next game settings for Halo infinite native 1440p 90 fov here are the rest of the settings let's do it first 50 kills wins you you iin me [Music] alone to catch Now red team uhoh this guy already what are we doing out of here good job gentlemen all right guys Halo infinite lots of FPS runs great next one all right guys stting for R 1440p res here are the graphics settings let's do it we're getting a good amount of FPS over 100 hold on hold on any last words got you son hey man you need to get out of there man eventually got to face the real world that ryzen 77800 x3d coming in clutch what's going on over here being mad weird bro let out your best war cry and step right out and we promise not to shoot [Music] you kill that guy kill that guy kill him kill him kill him BR all right guys rest performance good next game settings for pubg 1440p resolution here's the advanced graphic settings let's do it there's one by the tree they're resing there dude where's there straight oh he's fighting back yeah game of my life oh we're out a lock 24 FPS all right performance for pubg very good settings for Counter Strike 2 1440p resolution here are the advanced video settings let's do it if you believe you shall achieve yeah that's right boys right back to meere let have it then I let it be if you it got to let itzy you [Music] it good job guys good job holy we almost lost that dude settings for Red Dead Redemption 2 1440p here's the rest of the settings and the ones down here let's do it this guy just jumped on my horse what the HCK crazy [Music] mofo oh right in the face come on boy oh oh shoot now we're going to do story mode for a little bit see how much fps we get in that environment we're in the 200s oh we're at Max GP utilization we're in the high 90s nice They'll Never Take Me Alive get out of here don't come this way man come on come get some come get some and we have a little bit of this beautiful environment over here Scenic views all right guys next game settings for Apex Legends 440p res 110 for the fov here's the rest of the settings let's do it let's [Music] me block 300 FPS for most of the match next game settings for Rainbow Six Siege 1440p 90 fov here are the graphic settings let's do it here we go Brothers oh my God 600 FPS on Siege what 100% GP utilization dude we're going to just straight quick scope everyone with all this FPS [Music] man where did you get killed from brother too much fps I have too much fps oh wow we let him catch up guys come on ooh we're at 600 FPS dude this is ridiculous I've never had this much fps in Siege man and it's at full GP utilization dude no way all right we're only Dr my four now we just lost when I got like a billion kills and that's a wrap for our $2,000 build this build is a beast super good performance the combination of the r7900 XTX with that ryzen 3D CPU is just killer for 2,000 bucks what's next is the 40 series Nvidia super build guide so turn on Bell notifications so you can be led when those drop thanks for all your guys support [Music] peace

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Length: 29min 55sec (1795 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 28 2024